Japan: Restless Competitor : the Pursuit of Economic NationalismIn this important new and controversial study about the nature and focus of the Japanese economic agenda, the author argues forcefully that the official mind-set of leading bureaucrats, top politicians and big business, makes it virtually impossible for the western industrialized world to do business on an equal footing. Put simply, it is a question of western free-market economics facing Japanese economic nationalism, which is, by its very nature, both an expansive and a protectionist ideology. |
Contents
A Crisis of Confidence | 1 |
Myths and Realities | 42 |
A New Japan? | 75 |
Power Holders The Iron Triangle | 137 |
Will It Ever Change? | 210 |
Yen to the dollar 1949 to 2000 | 230 |
Bibliography | 261 |